We are no where near the level of Iraqi insurgents. Remember, these people record innocent people beg for their lives for days then zoom as a machete
saws the neck of the people eventually detaching their head from their bodies. Comparing U.S. soldiers to Iraqi insurgents is offensive.
'These' people, or should you say: 'certain' terrorist cells find creedence in goring foriegners and thier own people for thier own sociopolitical
causes. This is a war; America declared 'war' against an innocent country under false premises, puesdo-intel, and exploitation of circumstances
alien. This countries people are fighting an illegal occupation of thier country and the illegal ousting of thier leader, regardless of his
disposition. There has been 10's of thousands dead under the haste and ignorant hands of the Executive Administration in the White House. Comparing
U.S. soldiers to Iraqi soldiers is not offensice; both sides are fighting a war relative to thier stance, and both sides are using the best tactics to
combat the enemy: may it be through carpet bombing cities, to beheading enemies, or those affiliated with the enemies. One side has clearly the best
military technology advanced research has to offer, while the other has only thier shriveling faith in Allah and whatever they can conjure to hurt the
enemy. You can't compare them mechanicaly, but you can realize thier wil is the same.
We don't arrest people on the whim. We arrest former Iraqi soldiers and suspected terrorist. Basic rights? These people aren’t US citizens. Their
protection isn’t guaranteed under the guise of the US Constitution.
They do have basic rights, they have basic rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights instituted by the United Nations and upheld by even
the United States of America. U.S soldiers are not the law in Iraq, nor do they have any legal authority in that country; U.S soldiers are simply
utilizing the power of might and opression, nothing more. Coercion brought upon the Iraqies to teach them basic human rights, the path to democracy,
and liberties universal to all, has proven itself to be fatal. "Might does not equal right"; Hobbes had a level head when he realized this hundreds
of years ago, it's a pity a country like America cannot.
America has Freedom. Iraq now has freedom. The freedom to elect their president and progress the future of their country the way they see fit. Not
under an oppressive dictator.
Even in my youth I could smell the melancholy in the air, the dejection of innocence was beset around the world, it's as if Earth was thrown into a
previable state of purgatory. It was then when I could sense the cowardess of the worlds leaders, and it as then that I remember a great saying:"
Silence and indifference is the greatest sin of them all ." I thought of my own country, Canada, at that very moment, I thought of the Americans who
knew this war was wrong but hid under fear of being unpatriotic, I thought of people like me and you who contemplated the beclouded judgements of Bush
and Co when conducting the war, and then I realized that only fools beg themselves the better. We're such a foolish people.
If American soldiers were told to "Beat the # out of Detainees" then so be it, however, when an insurgent decides to saw off the head of a U.S.
soldier, they should realize that the road goes two ways.
Deep
If we follow all the rules then we’re not going
to win this war. Sometime you have to fight fire with fire. 
